Written by | (US) Neil DeGras Tyson
Excerpt from | He Anan
In 1930, Clyde Tombo discovered a mysterious and distant planet - Pluto. Over the next few decades, it was once considered a consensus that the solar system has nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. But today, when we talk about the solar system, there are only eight planets left. In August 2006, after voting, the International Astronomical Federation officially defined Pluto as a "dwarf planet."
In fact, Pluto's "identity crisis" did not begin since then. As early as 2000, people were shocked to discover that the rebuilt Hayden Planetarium was open to the public. The former planet, Pluto, did not appear in the relatively large and small exhibition areas between the solar system celestial bodies in the Hayden Planetarium. This "degradation" incident caused an uproar, and the Hayden Planetarium became the focus of public opinion. Neil DeGras Tyson, the director of the museum, was involved in this storm, and thus began a journey of Pluto exploration.
In 2005, a new celestial Eris star was discovered in the Kuiper Belt. How to locate the Erik Star? The discovery of new celestial bodies endangers Pluto's status. In 2006, after voting, the International Astronomical Federation officially defined Pluto as a "dwarf planet". Faced with this result, the public did not buy it, and there was also debate within the astronomy community.
Around Pluto’s downgrade event, interesting reports appeared in the newspapers, cartoonists drew unique comics, composers created affectionate songs, legislature passed relevant bills, astrologers also expressed their opinions, and people even held funerals for Pluto... Pluto, billions of kilometers away from the earth, triggered the collision of rationality and emotion in contemporary society.
As the director of the Hayden Planetarium, Tyson recorded in detail the entire process of Pluto from its first discovery to its naming, and then to its relegation after voting at the International Astronomical Federation Conference. He approached the media, experts and the public in the vortex of the dispute and experienced the collision of culture, business and science.
The following content is excerpted from the book "The Story of Pluto" written by Neil DeGras Tyson, an astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, and has been authorized by the publisher to publish it.
"The Story of Pluto", written by Neil Degras Tyson [US], translated by Zheng Yongchun and Liu Han, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press August 2019 edition
Everyone believes that the International Federation of Astronomical "murdered" Pluto
Pluto's new dwarf planet identity inevitably affects the entire world. August 25, 2006, the second day after the International Astronomical Federation voted, became a new starting point for the planetary calendar. The days before this day were all "dwarf"
(BD, Before Dwarf)
, and the days after that were all "dwarf"
(AD, After Dwarf)
.
After the International Astronomical Federation voted, Bill Nye immediately replied to me a new email, explaining his criticism of the latest progress of the incident:
The current resolution of the International Astronomical Federation to define Pluto as a "dwarf planet" will be a piece of waste paper. Because the word "planet" is defined to illustrate that celestial bodies like Pluto are not planets - this is an obvious mistake made by the International Astronomical Federation in definition to cater to the majority.
There are more than Bill who holds this view. Although this meaning that everyone generally understands is not the original intention of the International Astronomical Federation. Their words "dwarf" were added before "planets" refer to the past practices of astrophysicists: the words "dwarf" were used in dwarf galaxies
(still galaxy)
and dwarf
(still star)
. However, this did not help. Everyone thinks it was the International Astronomical Federation that murdered Pluto.
In the dispute caused by the relegation of Pluto, singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton
(Jonathan Coulton)
imitates the tone of the affectionate Tomichi and creates an ode for Pluto, called "I am Your Satellite".The song begins with mentioning that Pluto has no halo system. Of course, this is not the standard for judging planets. Coulton just uses it to lay the groundwork:
They fabricated a reason.
This is exactly the source of pain.
They don't think you are important,
because you don't have a beautiful halo.
Then, the song accuses the arrogance and dominance of the group of astronomers involved in disputes in poetic language:
Let them reshuffle the solar system.
Watch astronomers toss and turns.
We are already out of the way,
goes beyond the boundaries they know.
chorus partially captures an important fact that among all the satellites of the solar system, Pluto, as a satellite, is closest to the size of the main star Pluto, which makes Pluto affectionately call Pluto its satellite:
I am your satellite.
You are my satellite.
We keep turning around.
isolate from the world here,
stay away from the struggle,
those troubles seem so insignificant.
Apart from the romantic side, Coulton turned directly back to reality:
Seeing the sunrise becomes more and more sad.
It's too cold here.
The frozen silence,
The dark night sky,
We surround each other year after year.
In this song, my favorite part is similar to the words that may appear in self-psychological assistance and treatment:
promise me,
you will always remember,
Who are you.
Who are you originally.
The one they no longer recognize your identity before you.
This is definitely the most emotional speech delivered between two lifeless celestial bodies.
Another Pluto-inspired song was created by Jeff Mondak
(Jeff Mondak)
and Alex Stangel
(Alex Stangl)
. The name of this song is straightforward and concise, and it is called "Pluto is no longer a planet". Mr. Mondak lives in Champain, Illinois, USA. He is a children's poetry writer and lyricist, and is also a professor at the University of Illinois. Mr. Steunger lives in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada and is a singer, composer and musician and music producer. Previously, the two of them had collaborated on many songs. This time, they accepted the advice of students from Baxtor Primary School in Champion and wrote the song "Pluto is no longer a planet."
The haze layer on Pluto.
This song is cheerful and the lyrics are catchy. The lyrics repeatedly appear "Pluto is no longer a planet" so that children in the entire classroom can sing this sentence in unison. Below are two of my favorite lyrics:
Uranus may be very famous,
But Mercury is as enthusiastic as fire.
Pluto was a planet,
but for some reason it is no longer.
Neh is a little nervous,
Saturn is a little sad.
Jupiter jumped up and down frantically.
There were only eight of the nine planets left, and
Pluto is no longer a planet.
The ending of the song is handled very cleverly:
They held a meeting in Prague to vote, and
has now downgraded Pluto.
Oh, Pluto is no longer a planet.
composer uses anthropomorphic techniques to create songs for dwarf planets. This is the obscure theme, or any theme, that has entered the field of popular culture. Another best sign is that the master of humor uses this theme as material for jokes. Only when you understand the content and background of the joke will you think this joke is funny. In this way, the comedian can skip the introduction of the background and further tell fresh and interesting jokes. Have you ever heard of awesome jokes with Mercury as the theme? What about Neptune's joke? What about the joke about Nanmen II, the star system closest to the sun? It's hard to say which joke I've ever heard about them. But the masters of humor certainly can’t miss this joke—the knowledgeable scientists are like a bunch of kids when they argue about the Pluto issue.What's more, whether it's a master of humor or someone else, who can't be influenced by the interesting image of Pluto? It is both a planet and a non-planet; it is also a puppy, a puppy that is inferior to humans; let alone an ice hockey.
Pluto and its moons.
As we have seen in the news headlines of media coverage, the downgrade of Pluto opens a window to see what the social and cultural status is like. This cultural status blends diverse themes including partisan politics, social protests, celebrity worship, economic indicators, academic dogma, educational policy, social bias, and chauvinism.
Pluto suffered a "relegation" but Bruto is still Disney's "star dog"
Members of parliament in various places seem to know what to do with their time. At least two states in the United States have decided to deal with the Pluto issue on their own. In New Mexico, the hometown of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombo, the night sky is very clear, so there are many world-class astronomical observation facilities built here, including the Apache Observatory, Shidalena Ridge Observatory, and the US National Sun Observatory
(located in Sunspot, New Mexico)
. The state legislature believes that the International Astronomical Federation is unfair, that they insulted Pluto and insulted the great New Mexico. Therefore, on March 8, 2007, the 48th State Assembly passed a joint commemoration bill based on a motion proposed by member Joni Marie Gutierrez (Joni Marie Gutierrez)
: declare Pluto a planet within the state, and set March 13, 2007 as the statewide "Pluto Planet Day". The
bill was not filled with indignant complaints. Through several of these paragraphs that begin with “In view of…”, we can learn some astronomical knowledge from them.
Given that it has been 75 years since Pluto was recognized as a planet;
Given that the average orbital radius of Pluto centered on the sun is 3,695,950,000 miles
(about 5,948,054,957 kilometers)
, and the diameter of Pluto is about 1,421 miles(about 2,287 kilometers)
;In view of the fact that Pluto has 3 satellites, namely
(Caron)
,(Knicks)
and(Hudra)
;In view of the fact that the "New Horizons" probe launched in January 2006 was detected in 2015;
However, I cannot confirm the following problem. If I were to shout "Pluto is not a planet!" in a public theater in New Mexico, would I be arrested?
California is obviously ahead of New Mexico when it comes to Pluto-related regulations. Just minutes after the vote on Pluto’s downgrading in Prague on August 24, 2006, the California Legislature had prepared a bill for consideration. Despite the final failure, state lawmakers Keith Richman
(Keith Richman)
and Joseph Canciamilla
(Joseph Canciamilla)
still enthusiastically introduced the bill everywhere. The bill, called HR36, believes that the International Astronomical Federation is "slim-minded" and solemnly condemns the International Astronomical Federation's resolution to deprive Pluto of the identity of the planet on the grounds that the resolution has had a "huge impact" on the people of California and the state's "long-term healthy fiscal function." The average distance from
to the sun.
has a huge impact on the people of California? Such content is mixed in a series of "see...":
Given that the downgrade of Pluto will cause psychological harm to some California people, making these people doubt their position in the universe and worry about the unstable cosmic constants;
The healthy operation of California's finances? This problem is induced by the state's education system.
Given that the downgrade of Pluto will lead to the outdated number of textbooks, museum exhibitions and children's refrigerator posts, it requires allocation of a considerable extrabudgetary fund, which must come from the gradually reduced education fund in Proposal No. 98, which will harm the interests of California children and gradually increase the budget deficit; what impact will
on controversial political issues?
Given that the downgrade of Pluto reduces the number of planets, it will be difficult for the speaker to avoid legislation that re-divides constituents and other political reform measures that are not easy to advance.
This also involves Mickey's pet dog:
Given that Pluto is named after the god of hell in Roman mythology and has the same name as California's most famous cartoon dog, so Pluto has a special connection with California's history and culture.
Bruto (left) and Mickey (middle). Stills from the cartoon "Mickey Wonderful House".
Unlike the California Legislature's attitude, Disney Company, located in Burbank, the state, calmly and calmly accepted the fact that Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet. The company officially released a memo titled "Although Pluto Bruto suffered a relegation in planetary status, Bruto is still Disney's "star dog". This is obviously "Seven Dwarfs"
(they were dwarfs from the beginning)
, and they gave comfort when Pluto needs the most:
Although Pluto was submerged as a dwarf planet in a confused manner, some people were angry about it, some people didn't care, and continued to doze, but we can say without being shy at all that if Disney's Bruto became the eighth dwarf, we would be very happy. We think this is the decision of the All-Everything decision and there is nothing to sneeze about.
The article continues to write:
In 1930, Bruto made his first appearance on the screen as a loyal friend of Mickey. It was also this year that scientists discovered Pluto Bruto, who they believed was the ninth largest planet. The guy wearing white gloves and yellow leather shoes, Mickey, the best friend of Disney Star Dog, said: "I think this thing should have happened to the foolish Gaofei
(Goofy)
. Bruto was not interested in astronomy before, and at most sometimes howled at the moon a few times."
Please note that unlike the big dog Gaofei in the cartoon, Bruto is just a pet dog and cannot speak. So, the above mentioned is that Bruto will only howl at the moon a few times, without saying it will respond formally to the entangled media.
Humor masters apply Pluto to things that represent cultural trends
In the eyes of the people in the northeastern United States, Californians always look a little weird. Just a few days after the International Astronomical Federation voted to demote Pluto, the California Institute of Technology’s campus media reported on the alternative parade held on the streets of Pasadena, where the school is located:
Pluto’s funeral
Pasadena’s 30th annual parade, a New Orleans-style Pluto funeral team appeared. The people who played the Eight Planets lowered their heads, followed by the mourners in black and a jazz band. 1,500 people participated in the parade and they joined the funeral procession. Among the crowds of the parade were lumberjack marching bands, yoga masters, religious believers, female artists, and a team of accompanying people who were idle parades. The people in the accompanying team were very casual. When they were tired of walking, they stopped to rest for a while.
Facing the open-covered coffin with Pluto, the people participating in the parade expressed their condolences:
When they saw the opened coffin and the paper-paste Pluto, they drove 700 miles from Humboldt County
(about 1126.5 kilometers)
, a marching band member who came here to participate in the parade, shouting: "Wow, it's so spectacular! This is very good and necessary."
In the parade, each planet is played by a different person, and these actors are all from Caltech.The following news report records the speeches of the actors who played Saturn and the Earth, which shows that they are closely related.
Saturn plays the role of a postdoctoral fellow Angel Tanner (Angelle Tanner)
, a postdoctoral fellow in Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with many halos surrounding her. As the organizer of the parade, she expressed the ideas of most planets: "Most astronomers think that Pluto should not be a planet, but we all miss it." Some planets think they were forced to participate in the parade. For example, Samantha Lawler, the Earth actor who played the trumpet, said: "It was Saturn who recommended me to participate."
, the planetary astronomer at Caltech, was also present at the time. Of course, he also brought his daughter Lilah
(Lilah)
. She plays the role of the Elias Ellis in the parade, the Kuiper belt queen who was just discovered by Brown and others.
documentary "Interstellar Roaming".
On August 17, 2006, Pittsburgh News Post reporter Brian O’Neill
(Brian O’Neill)
wrote a story about the story behind Pluto’s downgrade, titled “Pluto, We Think This Is an Opportunity.” In this article, he fictionalized a conversation between Pluto and an astronomer in an administrative position. In this conversation, the astronomer told Pluto the news of his relegation:
"Hi, Pluto Bruto, thank you for visiting today. Please sit."
"No, thank you. I'm still used to floating in the air."
"Okay, Pluto ————I'll call you 'Plut' ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
"Very good, I'm willing to serve you humans in lab coats. When I passed by Neptune a few hundred years ago, I told it that we won't be discovered unless..."
"Yes, okay, this is about you and Neptune and other celestial bodies. Some of us in the International Astronomical Federation held a meeting to discuss it, and finally decided, well, you're too special to be classified as objects like Mercury and Mars."
You can imagine how this conversation unfolded, and astronomers tactfully persuaded Pluto to accept the view that it is different from other companions. Finally, astronomers ended the conversation with a nearly common rhetoric in the workplace struggle:
"Look, Plut, we know you're sad, but it's just a horizontal adjustment, not a downgrade. You are also a very important member of our solar system. We are judging celestial bodies about the same size as you, and seeing which ones can join your team."
Some humor masters are willing to use the story of Pluto's downgrade as a model and apply it to things that represent cultural trends. On the day Pluto was relegated, Mark Newman, editor of the official website of Major League Baseball,
(Mark Newman)
published an article on the website titled "Pluto Descent to an Asteroid: The former planet suffered a blow due to its small size, which made the fan club extremely dissatisfied." This long article is undoubtedly one of the most scientific articles published on the website. A paragraph in the article describes the order of the planets' hitting. Note that here, 9 batsmen, that is, 9 planets, form a baseball team:
[Pluto] You will never be like Mercury - Mercury, as the first hitter, has always been very skilled at the beginning of the nine planets. Venus is always full of love and willing to sacrifice itself, and is naturally the second position in the planetary sequence. The Earth is the typical No. 3 hitter, which is the ideal choice and is expected to be. Mars is a frightening red core character. Jupiter is the player who always finds the best hit point in the entire team. Having a Saturn on the team often means getting a ring-shaped championship ring. Uranus is the most naughty one in the team. He always likes to joke and activates the team atmosphere. Pluto stands at the end of the team year after year, always trying to jump in front of Neptune.Due to its elliptical orbit, Pluto is indeed closer to the sun than Neptune when it moves to some of its orbit. But Neptune is a shrewd veteran
(discovered in 1846)
, which stopped this little guy again and again. Pluto never gets the chance to move one official one forward. The young guy is covered with cold stripes and is not very popular with the public.
"Condolences" detector is responsible for telling Pluto the message
Dan Shaughnessy
(Dan Shaughnessy)
is a sports columnist for the Boston Globe. He couldn't help but compare Pluto with Boston Red Sox's strong hitter Manuel (Manny) Ramirez
(Manuel "Manny" Ramirez)
. On August 27, 2006, Shaunesi wrote:
Yesterday, a lot of news came from the International Astronomical Federation Conference held in Prague. Shortly after the controversial decision to relegate Pluto, astronomers agreed to formally recognize that "Planet Manny" is the ninth largest celestial body in the new solar system. This makes sense. Planet Manny dominated his orbit and hit the ball in the orbit outside the solar system. Obviously, it is completely different from a dwarf planet like Pluto.
Then tell the story of the sports world. In September 2006, the performance of the Knicks Borowitz basketball team in New York, USA was very disappointing. So, Andy Borowitz, a humorous political writer in the online newspaper "Borrowitz Report", couldn't help but mention Pluto in the title of the article - "Scientists Claim the Knicks are no longer basketball team: The Prague Conference lowers New York team to a short team level."
This short article uses irony very well to express the frustration of Knicks fans:
Just a few weeks after scientists held a meeting to relegate Pluto and declared that it was no longer a planet, the group of scientists met in Prague again, claiming that the New York Knicks were no longer a basketball team. Fans have suspected since last few seasons that it might be a mistake to determine the Knicks as a professional basketball team in the US. Today, scientists' announcements seem to remove all the questions left in people's minds.
Pluto at different angles.
From here, we can replace the Knicks with Pluto and the basketball team with planets, so that we can understand the real scientific debate shown in the article:
"Although the New York Knicks have some characteristics of the basketball team, we still think that it has some other characteristics. To be more precise, we can call the Knicks a short team." Dr. Kyosuke from the University of Tokyo
(Hiroshi Kyosuke)
said. He said we can "understand" why scientists once regarded the Knicks as a basketball team—a team that behaves similarly to other real basketball teams, such as appearing to be orderly on the basketball court, or throwing that orange ball hard. Behind
, Borovitz's words are more blunt:
"However, they lack two characteristics that all basketball teams have: scoring and winning games." Dr. Hiro Kyosuke said. In New York, Knicks head coach Isiah Thomas
(Isiah Thomas)
readily accepts people's redefinition of the Knicks. He said being designated as a short team means having a unique opportunity in team management: "If this decision means we can now compete with a team composed of really short people, then we will win in the game."
Pluto's relegation was not only linked to sports, but a month later, Andy Borowitz borrowed the story of Pluto to publish a critical article - "Scientists re-classify Bush's presidency: Both the White House and Pluto were reclassified."Referring to the November 2006 election results
(the ruling Republican party lost control of Congress)
, Borovitz wrote:
In the aftermath of the midterm election... Scientists held an emergency meeting in Oslo to discuss whether Bush's management meets the president's standards... But with the plunge in the presidential approval rating, before scientists collectively decided to reclassify it like re-classification like re-grading Pluto, the results of the above topic were clear... Degradation means Mr. Bush's status is "under the president, but above the mayor".
The free New York online weekly magazine "Onion Network" looks unique. The online newspaper is positioned as the "best source of news in the United States", and it will publish funny articles imitating other newspapers. It has sharp words, witty words, and is extremely funny. These articles are in the form of pretentiously serious news comments, so that when they are halfway through, people will always carefully confirm whether they have accidentally read the New York Times or the Washington Post. On December 18, 2006, an article in the newspaper wrote that NASA accepted a mission to inform Pluto of the International Astronomical Federation’s resolution:
bad news conveyor
"Condolences" probe was responsible for the mission to inform Pluto of the message
NASA chief engineer James Wood
(James Wood)
said: "It was a difficult decision, but we felt that telling Pluto directly was the right choice. After all, for the past 76 years, we have always regarded it as the ninth largest planet - it would be unfair to send this message from Earth through unmannerable radio."Wood said: "Pluto is more than 3.5 billion miles from the sun
(about 5.6 billion kilometers)
. Launching a probe is the best way to inform us and will not alienate Pluto from us."
Considering that people should fully consider their personal emotions and self-esteem when dealing with events today, the article continued:
Wood said that the "Condolences" probe will "try its best" to explain the reasons for the downgrade to Pluto and state that this downgrade event is "not related to its personal behavior."
NASA scientists have taken measures in advance to ensure that Pluto will not be informed of the downgrade before the Condolences probe arrives at Pluto.
The New Horizons probe will pass by Pluto in July 2015, and it has received instructions to remain silent. At the same time, it also received instructions to congratulate nearby Erik and Ceres on upgrading from asteroid sequences to dwarf planet sequences.
"If our calculations are not wrong, the Condolences probe will arrive at Pluto on a certain Friday," Wood said. "It's better to solve this before the weekend."
10-year-old fourth-year student Maryn Smith
(Maryn Smith)
attended Riverview Elementary School in Grand Falls, Montana, USA. She was not afraid of the results of the International Astronomical Federation and submitted the results of the mission to a competition organized by the National Geographic Society. This competition mission is to conceive a mantra that helps memorize the order of 11 planets, not only to let Pluto return to its original position in the planetary sorting, but also to boldly add a word to the lonely Ceres between Mars and Jupiter, and at the end.
Smith won the competition, writing, "My very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under Nine Palace Elephants
". This sentence is reminiscent of Disney's cartoon "Aladdin", and it can be used in a book called "11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System" that was about to be published by National Geographic magazine at the time. According to United News Agency, singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb
(Lisa Loeb)
was inspired by this to write a song titled "My Exciting Magic Carpet".
This is really the best contempt.
American Dialect Society upgraded the word Pluto to a verb
While astrophysicists demoted Pluto, the American Dialect Society, which has a history of more than 100 years, upgraded the word Pluto to a verb, making it the 17th "Vocabulary of the Year" selected by the organization - 2006 Vocabulary:
to pluto/to be plutoed
(Plutoized/processed as Pluto)
: Depreciate the value of someone or something or reduce its level, just like the encounter of the original planet - Pluto when the International Astronomical Federation Congress determined that Pluto did not meet the definition of a planet.
Dialect Society includes linguists, gramologists, and related scholars. They just thought it was fun and went to vote, and the voting results were not part of the official announcement. The main task of dialect learning is to analyze language, evaluate the development trends of language usage, and inject fresh vocabulary into English.
documentary "Interstellar Roaming".
If people often use certain new words in their daily lives, the dictionary will naturally be included. "plutoed" has a similar meaning to the approved word "torpedoed
(attacked with torpedo)
" and its pronunciation is similar.
NBC
(NBC)
The Tonight Show did not miss this topic. Soon, on the evening of January 19, 2007, Jay Leno
(Jay Leno)
mentioned this new word in his opening remark:
"I'm very happy that the word they chose was plutoed, not uranused
(processed by Uranus)
." The ridiculous thing about the sentence
is that Uranus
(Uranus)
pronunciation sounds like "your-anus
(your anus)
", and Jay pronounced it on purpose.
At the same time, there are some people in the dialect society who blame the unsatisfactions they encounter in finance or love on the universe, and do not look for the reasons from themselves. Because they believe that the official statement that Pluto was demoted has affected their horoscope. The day after the International Astronomical Federation voted, Jane Spencer
(Jane Spencer)
published a report titled "Pluto's downgraded makes astrologer diverge" in the Wall Street Journal. This article, which has been widely reprinted, quotes the words of the American Federation of Astrologers and the British Astrology Association. The two groups said they would stand in the same camp as Pluto, insisting that the icy object is a complete planet, and that it still has a huge impact on our minds despite the International Astronomical Federation’s vote to deny its planetary identity. Here are my favorite parts:
, columnist of the website focusing on mind problems, Shelley Ackerman
(Shelley Ackerman)
said: "Whether it is a planet, an asteroid, or a dumpling that emits electromagnetic waves, Pluto itself has proven that it will always have a place in all astrological charts used for astrology." The second half of the article quotes Ms. Ackerman's criticism of the International Astronomical Federation, who is dissatisfied with the failure to consider the astrologer's opinion in Pluto's decision to degrade. The article then quoted Eric Francis(Eric Francis)
: "I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time." Francis' website Planetary Waves represents the position of a part of the medieval prophets' family, namely the asteroid astrologer. Francis said he welcomes Ceres, Erik and Osmanthus to join the dwarf planets, so that those who believe in astrology can have more other ways to use the astrological chart when interpreting their destiny through the universe.
article ends with the words of Vanity Fair astrologer Michael Lutin (Michael Lutin)
. Lu Ting said he would consider the newly added small celestial bodies, but he was not convinced that these celestial bodies would have an impact on our daily lives because they were in the outer area of the solar system, and "the celestial bodies UB313 simply wouldn't tell you if Wednesday is suitable for dates." In fact, no celestial body in the sky predicts Wednesday's fortune unless it is an asteroid that has been planned to hit Earth on Wednesday.
It’s better to let your children study hard in school.
The content of this article is excerpted from the book "The Story of Pluto", which has been deleted and modified from the original text. The subtitle was added by the editor and is not owned by the original text. It has been authorized by the publisher to publish.
Author丨Neil Degras Tyson
Excerpt丨He Anan
Edit丨Zhang Jin
Proofreading丨Chen Diyan
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